#154 - Google Gemini, Waymo Collision, Smaug-72B, EU AI Act final text, image watermarks
Update: 2024-02-11
Description
Our 154th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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Correction: Andrey mentioned "State space machines", he meant "State space models"
Timestamps + links:
- (00:00:00 ) Intro / Banter
- Tools & Apps
- (00:02:06 ) Google Releases Gemini, an A.I.-Driven Chatbot and Voice Assistant
- (00:05:56 ) Copilot gets a big redesign and a new way to edit your AI-generated images
- (00:09:40 ) Arc Search's AI responses launched as an unfettered experience with no guardrails
- (00:12:40 ) Brilliant Labs’s Frame glasses serve as multimodal AI assistant
- (00:15:30 ) Stability AI launches SVD 1.1, a diffusion model for more consistent AI videos
- (00:16:18 ) OpenAI launches ChatGPT app for Apple Vision Pro
- Applications & Business
- (00:19:04 ) A Waymo robotaxi hit a cyclist in San Francisco – here’s what happened
- (00:23:30 ) Canon plans to disrupt chipmaking with low-cost “stamp” machine
- (00:27:33 ) US industry group calls for multilateral chip export controls to address disadvantage over Korea, other allies
- (00:30:10 ) U.S. blocks shipment of 24 Nvidia AI GPUs to China over concerns about self-driving truck company
- (00:32:24 ) Nvidia reportedly selects Intel Foundry Services for GPU packaging production — could produce over 300,000 H100 GPUs per month
- Projects & Open Source
- (00:37:23 ) Allen Institute for AI launches open and transparent OLMo large language model
- (00:42:46 ) Meet ‘Smaug-72B’: The new king of open-source AI
- (00:47:02 ) Introducing Qwen1.5
- (00:50:54 ) Hugging Face launches open source AI assistant maker to rival OpenAI’s custom GPTs
- (00:53:20 ) Apple releases ‘MGIE’, a revolutionary AI model for instruction-based image editing
- Research & Advancements
- (00:54:30 ) Learning Universal Predictors
- (01:01:00 ) Can Mamba Learn How to Learn? A Comparative Study on In-Context Learning Tasks
- (01:04:40 ) MusicRL: Aligning Music Generation to Human Preferences
- (01:05:47 ) FP6-LLM: Efficiently Serving Large Language Models Through FP6-CentricAlgorithm-System Co-Design
- (01:09:06 ) AgentBoard: An Analytical Evaluation Board of Multi-turn LLM Agents
- (01:12:36 ) Specialized Language Models with Cheap Inference from Limited Domain Data
- Policy & Safety
- (01:13:22 ) EU’s AI Act passes last big hurdle on the way to adoption
- (01:17:04 ) Building an early warning system for LLM-aided biological threat creation
- (01:23:44 ) FCC votes to ban scam robocalls that use AI-generated voices
- (01:24:33 ) Biden administration names a director of the new AI Safety Institute
- (01:26:23 ) OpenAI's GPT-4 finally meets its match: Scots Gaelic smashes safety guardrails
- Synthetic Media & Art
- (01:28:04 ) AI poisoning tool Nightshade received 250,000 downloads in 5 days: ‘beyond anything we imagined’
- (01:30:24 ) Labeling AI-Generated Images on Facebook, Instagram and Threads
- (01:33:06 ) OpenAI is adding new watermarks to DALL-E 3
- (01:34:38 ) Following lawsuit, rep admits “AI” George Carlin was human-written
- (01:36:20 ) Outro
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